Look again: it could be Corfu, but it's Crete (Preveli, 1911).
Can one tell from the women's clothing?
Compare the Boissonnas photograph with Sophie Atkinson's painting of olive-gathering in Corfu
at around the same period, from "An Artist in Corfu" (1911).
Neither image makes olive-gathering look like the hard, back-breaking job it is in reality.
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Not so bad for the man on the right! Stratis Axiotis, Liomazima
The olive harvest (Black Figure Amphora)
Can one tell from the women's clothing?
Compare the Boissonnas photograph with Sophie Atkinson's painting of olive-gathering in Corfu
at around the same period, from "An Artist in Corfu" (1911).
Neither image makes olive-gathering look like the hard, back-breaking job it is in reality.
.jpg)
Not so bad for the man on the right! Stratis Axiotis, Liomazima
The olive harvest (Black Figure Amphora)
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